Temper, temper!

Do you have a temper? How easy/hard is it to trigger your temper? Are you trying to change aspects of your temper? Any good stories where you lose your temper?

I have a pretty fiery temper, but I've learned to suppress it almost all the time. I have to be backed pretty far into a corner, or really tired, for it to go off. I think I've lost control twice in the last year, and neither time was all that interesting, except for people who hadn't seen my temper flare up before.

The best story I have of losing my temper is when I was 12 or 13 at my friend's house for a sleepover. One of my best friends sat on my torso and head with a bean bag chair, not realizing that I'm claustrophobic when my head is fully enclosed by something close. So I freaked out, flipped the thing over him, then grabbed him by the neck and dug my thumbs into the back of his neck. Eventually I calmed down, and he wasn't mad so much as apologetic for freaking me out.

Jam it back in, in the dark.